FACTS which contradict what is taught in the universities and which even run counter to the assumptions made by critics of misandry.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Margie Zeglen Killed Two Husbands With the Same Gun - 1952

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TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Houston, June 30 – Mrs. Margie Zeglen, 34, sister of one
of Texas’ notorious desperadoes of the 1930s, was jailed yesterday on a charge
of murdering her 28-year-old husband Saturday night following a family
argument.

Mrs.
Zeglen was charged in Dallas in 1946 with killing Andy Robinson, her first
husband. She told homicide detectives here a grand jury no-billed her on that
charge. Mrs. Zeglen is the sister of Raymond Hamilton, a running mate of
notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who terrorized the Southwest during
the 1930s. Hamilton was electrocuted at Huntsville State Penitentiary in 1935
for murder after once escaping from the death house there, the only man ever to
do so. Police said they believed Mrs. Zeglen fired her Belgian-made automatic
from the dining room of the couple’s house here.

The
shot went out an open window in the rear bedroom and hit her running husband in
the head. Police said the one shot went accurately through the open door into
the bedroom and on out through the window.

FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Houston, Jan. 17. – The
red-headed, trigger-happy sister of the late gunman Raymond Hamilton said today
a customer in her bar insisted on finding out how tough she is. She shot him.

It was the third time Margie Zeglen, 35, had brought down
her man with a gun.

She killed the first two, her husbands. But Jessie Donald
Muirhead, of Baytown, hung on today in critical condition from three bullet
wounds. She said she only wanted to scare him.

About the same time Muirhead was being shot late last night,
Mrs. Zeglen’s son was caught carrying on in the Hamilton tradition by trying to
rob a Wichita Falls drug store.

He is 20-year-old Raymond Fairris (first name in honor of
his uncle Ray, a running mate of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in the ‘30s.)

Fairris and Henderson Weldon Wyatt, 29, a man well known by
Houston, Galveston and Wichita Falls police, were charged with burglary.

Mrs. Zeglen was charged here with assault to murder.

Her version of the shooting differed considerably from
Muirhead’s.

He said: “I was in the tavern with a buddy. We had a few
beers. The woman who ran the joint wanted me to set up the drinks on the house.
This brought on an argument. She shot me.”

With her attorney standing by, Mrs. Zeglen told reporters:

“Muirhead was drunk when he came in the place. He brought a
bottle of whisky [sic] with him and wanted set ups, but I refused to serve
him.”

She quoted Muirhead as saying: “I know who you are. You’re
Raymond Hamilton’s sister. I’m going to find out how tough you are. I’ve always
wanted to whip a Hamilton.”

She continued her story:

“The man with him led Muirhead out of the door. When he
tried to get back in the place I fired once at the ceiling. Later, when he
insisted on coming back in, I fired twice at the floor.”

Her attorney interrupted:

“The bullets must have ricocheted from the concrete floor and
struck Muirhead.”

Mrs. Zerglen said she called police.

Mrs. Zeglen was out of jail on appeal bond after having been
convicted on the pistol slaying of her second husband, Mike Zeglen, and given
five years in prison. She was never tried for the shooting of her first husband
in Fort Worth in 1946.

~ Freed on Bond ~

She was released today on $1000 bond in the shooting of
Muirhead.

Young Fairris was freed on bond recently after a grand jury
indicted him in the recent $10,500 robbery of a Houston jewelry store. He was
on parole then from a burglary sentence in Kansas.

I have read of her and I just watched the Deadly Women episode containing her story. She was as ruthless as can be. The fact that she ran a bar as a woman in 1950's TEXAS only shows a small bit of how self-motivated and fearless she was. The unfortunate part is she would do anything to preserve her sense of self. Never question this woman's self-belief! Cold-hearted as they come.